Painted on slightly convex glass in the ‘anti-Etruscan’ style of black against a brilliant red background, this rare and striking profile shows a Georgian gentleman in a bound pigtail wig wearing a coat with over-sized buttons, a frilled chemise and stock. Dating to around 1792, the silhouette is in excellent original condition and resides in a handsome slim-line gold frame with a watch top hanger. The frame is ever so slightly dinged on the reverse side.It was a rival silhouette artist Jacob Spornberg who invented an Etruscan-style of profile. Reminiscent of the red-figure Etruscan pottery invented at Athens about 530 BC, an outline of the sitter was initially drawn in thin black paint against a black ground before the whole was coated in vermilion enamel. It was this striking effect that Rosenberg sought to emulate though he reversed the colours and dubbed it ‘anti-Etruscan’. It would appear though that these silhouettes were not popular as very few examples of them are recorded....